John Miedema

Tim Miedema snapped this photo of a nine-inch thick book he came across in a country garage. It is an encyclopaedia and dictionary. The owner found it in a barn. Tim is one of my several siblings. You can click the photo or this link to view his online art gallery.

Aristotle Build 03 by Republic Bike was recently added to the Reading Gallery. Books and bicycles share core design principles: elegance, durability, flight. Fixies are my growing obsession.

BookBook by Twelve South was recently added to the Reading Gallery. I like the way it juxtaposes the fast and slow of information. It is an actual leather case you can purchase for the MacBook.

Photo entitled “creative reading” by anemone achtnich, used with permission. She adds this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.”

My Slow Reading page has this photo, used by permission from Clara. She told me the book is a Swedish hymnbook, and the hymn is number 415 514, about a small, poor child who is happy anyway because the Lord takes care of us.